Oliver Elphick wrote: > Caret used to be an alternative pipe symbol. though it does not seem to work > in bash. Are there any Linux shells which do interpret it as pipe? If so, > it would be a bad choice as a delimiter. Zsh interprets it as a '*' as far as I can see. But I am not sure, as I never use it. Roland -- Roland Bauerschmidt <rb@debian.org>